Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
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This is the entire Firefox browser rendering to a <canvas> element. Gecko, all UI components, and the Spidermonkey JS engine are all compiled and running in WebAssembly.
Here are a few things you might find interesting:
- This is fully end to end encrypted! We use the WISP protocol for TCP-over-websockets.
- There is a novel WASM->JS JIT for experimental site speedup
- This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research
This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly. For a more usable "browser in browser" experience, we also built https://github.com/HeyPuter/browser.js that eats a bit less RAM.
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